ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,220, issued on June 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to obtain diagnostic information for a system" was invented by Terence D. Pickett (Waukee, Iowa), Brandon M. McDonald (Johnston, Iowa) and Timothy A. Wilcox (Cissna Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to obtain diagnostic information for a system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes vehicle interface circuitry to obtain information corresponding to a detected problem of a vehicle, cloud interface circuitry to obtain, via a network communication, an ou...